Dunedin company Energy Link launched the Energy Exchange web site in July of this year, and last Thursday 17th November it ran New Zealand’s first live internet reverse auction for electricity supply . The auction has similarities to auctions held on popular web sites that most people will be familiar with, but the winning bid is the lowest rather than the highest.

Cerebos Gregg's yesterday celebrated the completion of a $20 million investment in its Dunedin plant in Forth St.

The investment over the past two and a-half years has paid for manufacturing upgrades including new production lines, a warehouse extension, improvements to environmental compliance, a new staff car park, staff facilities and an open plan main office.

Mai Chen is a New Zealand constitutional and administrative law expert, managing partner of law firm Chen Palmer, professor at the University of Auckland School of Law, director of BNZ, chair of New Zealand Asian Leaders and the Superdiversity Centre for Law, Policy and Business, best-selling author, and lover of Dunedin.

A simple device designed by an inventive Dunedin mind has the medical fraternity buzzing.

The device, called a ''mattress elevator'', being sold by Dunedin company BFW Innovations has been hailed as a potential game changer for the treatment of patients with bed sores and arthritis sufferers.

A survey showing Dunedin residents feel increasingly positive about their city shows the city is on the ''right track'', Mayor Dave Cull says.

A highlight of the council's 2016 residents' opinion survey was a significant boost in the number of people who perceive Dunedin as a thriving city (up 20 points from last year to 48%) and a fun city (up 17 points to 66%).

Dunedin and the University of Otago have won the rights to host the prestigious 9th World Congress of Herpetology (the study of reptiles and amphibians) to be held in 2020. The six day international conference will attract up to 1000 delegates to the city, translating to up to 6000 room nights and will bring in an estimated $2.1 million to the local economy.

DVML is pleased to report the positive results of the Economic Impact
Study for the All Blacks v Wales test match held in the city on 25 June
2016. CEO Terry Davies acknowledged the fantastic result for Dunedin.
“Once again the importance of major events being held in Dunedin and
the rewards they bring are evident here in this excellent result. We
know that the benefits are widespread during a major event weekend and
Dunedin shines no matter what the weather.”

Any business that spends
more than $100,000 a year on electricity will know the process of sourcing
competitive offers from retailers is complicated and cumbersome, but a critical
overhead that requires prudent cost control.

Otago Polytechnic’s latest Economic Impact Report reveals a total expenditure of $255 million ($254,950,000) in the Otago region in 2015, with its global economic impact in the same year valued at $289.8 million.

A little-known Dunedin medical company celebrated the 50th anniversary of the invention of the Molteno glaucoma drainage implant this month, an implant which has changed thousands of lives worldwide since the mid-1960s. ODT former health reporter and now senior business reporter Simon Hartley profiles the family company Molteno Ophthalmic Ltd.

The first pair of shoes that Dunedin shoemaker Louise Clifton crafted had felt uppers and car-mat soles. Not the loftiest mix of footwear ingredients but one that delivered a shoe epiphany nonetheless.

The new Emerson's brewery opens to the public tomorrow. Michael Donaldson talks to Richard Emerson about overcoming disability on his journey to the top of the craft beer world.When Richard Emerson sold his small Dunedin brewery to national giant Lion four years ago it took him well out of his comfort zone.

He went from a humble brewer turning out some of New Zealand's loved beers to a corporatestyle ambassador for his brand, meeting and greeting a constant stream of new faces ‹ not easy at the best of times but doubly difficult when you can't hear what people are saying and struggle to make yourself understood.

The Dunedin market is the busiest it's been in almost a decade. A property boom is injecting life back into the Edinburgh of the South. Prices are rising, houses are being snapped up within weeks -- some are selling as soon as they're listed online, sight unseen.

Dunedin couple Meg and Cecilia Mickelsen have turned their love of art into a cottage industry. Their St Clair home is also a gallery called Fe29, selling works by local and overseas artists - and a few by Cecilia, too. But we’re not talking about just one or two rooms here. The entire house is given over to art and the pair live happily amongst it all.

Dunedin has been economically stagnant so long that no-one is brave enough to declare the gloomy times over.

But all the signs say it is out of the economic doldrums it has been in for 10 years.

The city is enjoying booms in real estate, tourism and niche technology industries such as video gaming.

A report from economic monitoring company BERL shows 1770 new jobs have been created in the city in the past two years and Dunedin's economy is now growing at 1.3 percent a year per capita.The average for the preceding eight years was just 0.2 percent. (Cont’d)

ADInstruments is a global company started in Dunedin nearly 30 years ago by Michael Macknight. It's a world leader in data acquisition systems for the life sciences in research and tertiary education. Today, ADInstruments employs more than 200 people globally and its hardware and software is used in all of the world's top 100 universities as well as hundreds of research organizations. Head office is in Dunedin - the largest of the offices - and employs approximately 75 people. Two of their Dunedin-based team share their perspectives of living in the city and working at ADInstruments.

For anyone who wants proof that Dunedin's not like other New Zealand cities, go no further than the main street. Few of our towns boast European-style main squares: this is certainly the only one that doubles down on the idea and has an Octagon at its heart. Read the full NZ Herald article on Vault 21 here.

Word-of-mouth is crucial to growing a business in a community like Dunedin, says benchtop manufacturer Paul McGrath. Hamish McGrath was introduced to the family business at a fairly young age: he was just two days old when mum Eloise took him into see dad Paul at their Mosgiel office. It's a pretty good example of why the couple - and many young entrepreneurs like them - choose Dunedin to set up their home and working life. Read more about Paul and McGrath Benchtop Solutions here in NZ Herald’s feature article.